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• SALLY FIELD ON BEG A MOM WHO SUPPORTS HER GAY SON SPOILER ALERT
• SALLY FIELD ON HER GAY SON: I'M HORRIFIED OTHER PARENTS WOULD DISAPPROVE
• READ SALLY FIELD’S IMPASSNED OPEN LETTER ABOUT HER GAY SON
• SALLY FIELD RECEIV HRC'S ALLY FOR EQUALY AWARD, DELIVERS EMOTNAL SPEECH ON GAY SON SAM

SALLY FIELD ON BEG A MOM WHO SUPPORTS HER GAY SON SPOILER ALERT

Maybe 's bee gay men feel a certa unniable affectn for award-wng actrs. On TV, she won an Emmy for her portrayal of Abby's (Mra Tierney) schizophrenic mom on ER and another for starrg as a lovg mom (Nora Walker) to a gay son played by Matthew Rhys on Brothers and Sisters at a time when gay characters on prime time were rare. In life, Field is an outspoken equaly activist for all margalized groups, and along wh her son Sam Greisman, who is gay, she's been particularly outspoken about phg to pass the Equaly Act, which would ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, genr inty, and creds Brothers and Sisters shownner and Spoiler Alert wrer David Marshall Grant and director Michael Showalter (who directed her the die gem Hello, My Name Is Doris) for brgg her on to Spoiler Alert to play mom to Ben Aldridge's K and mother--law to Jim Parsons's Michael.

SALLY FIELD ON HER GAY SON: I'M HORRIFIED OTHER PARENTS WOULD DISAPPROVE

"Throughout her storied reer, Field has played a teen surfer girl Gidget, an airborne woman of God The Flyg Nun, and a unn activist Norma Rae, but her first groundbreakg role as a mom to a gay son is the one that seems to ronate to most lately. She rells her son's g-out scene Brothers and Sisters, where Kev asks why she didn't jt ask him about beg gay if she knew, and she rponds that wasn't her journey to take.

And she didn't know I was gay.

Sally Field on her gay son: I'm horrified other parents would disapproveSally Field is an arnt advote of LGBT rights, even wng the Human Rights Campaign’s 2012 Ally for Equaly Award.

READ SALLY FIELD’S IMPASSNED OPEN LETTER ABOUT HER GAY SON

”Field noted Sam’s se was ially difficult for her son to bee acctomed to his inty as a gay man. The fabulo Sally Field released this open letter about her gay son today, and ’s more than enough to give you a Happy Friday.

SALLY FIELD RECEIV HRC'S ALLY FOR EQUALY AWARD, DELIVERS EMOTNAL SPEECH ON GAY SON SAM

Sam is my youngt son, by 18 years, and he’s gay. Fally, at 20, long after he beat his brothers at tennis and puter gam and knew as much as anyone about basketball, Sam was able to stand up proudly and say, “I am a gay man. Sam recently me out gay, and Field has exprsed her support for his sexualy, sayg:.

“It’s important for a parent to talk about raisg a geo, proud, smart, funny, lovable, sexy gay child, There are so many parents who are ightened of that and who don’t embrace their children as they stggle to embrace who they are, what nature tend them to be. Sam exprs that his mother is the bt guardian any gay person uld ever need, as she was there for him while he battled mental health cris as a teenager and his stggl of g out.

Sam, also a wrer and director, me out as gay years ago, and his mom had his back. “It’s important to have a parent speak about raisg a magnificent, proud, telligent, funny, lovable, sexy gay son, ” she said another terview wh Oprah 2012.